Berkeley Journal of Sociology

The liberal strategy of simply exposing Trump’s lies, pointing to his preposterously unscripted oratory, and hoping to convey some sort of “truth” as antidote to his base misses the point. Trump’s brand of populism has sutured “the people” to the interests of big capital.

As the presidential primaries reach a fever pitch, the candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders lay bare the limits of liberalism’s postwar consensus, and demand a reimagined agenda for progressive politics in the twenty-first century.